I used to feel this way too. my alters had my life and anything I h ad learned, I wanted to have talents too. one day I told a therapist this... their words...

"so pick something, and learn how to do it. nothing is stopping you but yourself"

I said huh?

they said think about it, is there any law or rule saying you can not pick something and then learn about it?

that day I picked up a pad of paper and wrote out a list of things I wanted to learn how to do, some were absolutely outrageous and some were just funny little things where every time I thought or said "wish I could do that" and others were actual things I wanted to learn...

learn a second language, ride a unicycle, do a back bend, do a cartwheel, be a therapist, be a doctor, be a medical lab technician, read xrays, learn to swim the butterfly, touch the tip of my nose with my tongue, be a contortionist, play the flute, guitar, piano, drums tuba and Xylophone ... well you get the picture. i had a whole notebook designated for things I wanted to learn / or be talented in. I still have it and still add to it and I still go through it and pick out something to learn how to do.

my therapist said to me....if you really want to learn something it takes work but it can be done. you are never too old or too young to learn something new......she was right.....last week a relative introduced me to an 80 year old woman who has skiing and bungee jumping on her bucket list and is taking skiing lessons and bungee jumping lessons. why just because she wants to learn those things.

I say if you want to learn something new go for it. right now I am learning the art of origami, and anthropology / archaeology why because I want to learn how to make beautiful paper objects and go on an archaeology dig some day.